When the premiers balked at a pan-Canadian tax on carbon, the Prime Minister was left to speak vaguely of‘mechanisms’ to limit Canadian emissions. Is a cohesive national plan even possible?By JOHN GEDDES11 min

It appears that Maclean’s plans to churn out regular editorials over the next year or so espousing the danger of any changes to our electoral system and championing the status quo of first-past-thepost (The Editorial, March 7). Fundamental to your latest opinion piece is that our current electoral system exhibits no evidence of being broken.

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